Extending over the garage

Crizzy

Crizzy

Crizzy

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Hi everyone,

I'm currently living in a semi-detached property and am considering my options for extending. One of the most viable solutions would be to extend over the top my garage giving me a couple of extra rooms (it's double length garage).

However, our non-attached neighbours have already done this, and they have also converted their old garage to living space as well (well, the previous owners did, not the people currently living there).

I'm planning to keep the garage as a garage at the front of the house, but the extension above will then be attached to the neighbours property, creating a terraced effect.

Does anyone know if this would actually re-classify both houses to be terraced should either of us wish to sell in future, as I do not want to negatively impact the cost of our properties? Also both our original neighbours would then become 'end of terrace' as well?
 
So my garage is attached to their property now, but the garage would have to come down before any works start as it wouldn't be able to support an extension on top.

Neighbours across the road have done this, and left a tiny gap, but think that would cause more trouble if there were any maintenance issues further down the line?

Also the architect we spoke to said he doesn't quite understand why people leave a gap for similar reasons, although I suppose we could request it.
 
Participant said:
If you do this just make sure you go belt and braces on the insulation and heating. Bedrooms over garages can be cold.

The garage door might also need reviewing for similar reasons.
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Thanks for the tip.

I think I'm just going to ask my neighbor what their thoughts are and go with whatever works best for both of us.
 
Yeah, it is what it is I suppose, hopefully we can get it all done in budget, at the moment we've got no idea of cost until we can get some plans drawn up and sent over to the contractors.
 
We don't quite have the headroom for a loft conversion unfortunately, and even if we did we'd have to sacrifice one of our rooms for the stairs so we wouldn't be gaining any extra rooms either :(
 
We ideally need to keep the garage as we have 3 children and need somewhere to store their bikes (and mine). Whilst we could do this in the garden it would mean dragging muddy bikes through the house which is not ideal.

If we kept a small space for storage at the front of the house then any room behind it would have no windows, which again is not ideal.
 
No I haven't spoken to any estate agents. We don't really have any desire to move so any impact to our property is almost irrelevant.

We have the architect coming out next week so I'm going to ask my neighbors to see if they want to be available to ask any questions regarding potential plans, just so that we are all on the same page from day 1.
 
Puzzled said:
If you are knocking the garage down then you could leave a side path to push the bikes down between the houses to storage in the garden. Sure you'd lose some floor space but you'd gain two floors of living space plus it would keep the house as a semi.
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This would work if we were looking at a single storey extension? Unfortunately if we left any kind of meaningful gap at the side there wouldn't be much room left to actually create a proper extension.
 
Got the architect coming out in a few days, neighbors said that they don't mind either adjoining or leaving a gap, whatever is easiest for us!

We'll speak to the architect this week about the pros and cons of both options and see where we go from there.
 
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